The Politics of Women's Work : The Paris Garment Trades, 1750-1915
Few issues attracted more attention in the nineteenth century than the ""problem"" of women's work, and few industries posed that problem more urgently than the booming garment industry in Paris. The seamstress represented the quintessential ""working girl, "&...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2014.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Few issues attracted more attention in the nineteenth century than the ""problem"" of women's work, and few industries posed that problem more urgently than the booming garment industry in Paris. The seamstress represented the quintessential ""working girl, "" and the sewing machine the icon of ""modern"" femininity. The intense speculation and worry that swirled around both helped define many issues of gender and labor that concern us today. Here Judith Coffin presents a fascinating history of the Parisian garment industry, from the unraveling of the guilds in the late 1700s to the first mi. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (240 pages). |
ISBN: | 9781400864324 |